Thomas

Quite complicated, but you saw in the examples what I mean.

Gut, unser drittes Wort, danach.

Well, danach already looks a lot like davor that we saw in the last video and it works in exactly the same way.

No extra rules this time, no complications.

It translates best as after that and it does connect two separate sentences.

Zum Beispiel, Martin geht jetzt einkaufen.

Danach kocht er was Leckeres.

So, Martin is going shopping now.

After that, he is cooking something tasty.

Instead of danach, you could also use the word nachher.

The rules, use and meaning are much the same.

Only that nachher, I would say, refers to a general later time instead of referring to a specific event.

In our last sentence we had, he's going shopping, that was our event, and we said after that he does something else.

If you use nachher, you just say at a later point.

Wunderbar!

Just like that, you have also mastered how to translate after in German.

Now there is one last word that we need to tackle.

That is the word for during or while, which is während in German.

Good news!

It's only one word and not three words this time.